March 2025

The revolving door of leaders in the health system and the continual push to cut the budget, makes editor Barbara Fountain question how targets can possibly be met without showing some love for general practice

Government support – or lack of it – and health minister Simeon Brown’s suggestion that underfunding is fake news are the biggest issues stirring debate this month. Martin Johnston reports

When she left her position abruptly in February, director-general of heath Diana Sarfati became the third woman to step down from a senior healthcare leadership role in as many months

An international medical graduate who trained first in Pakistan, Aisha Latif is now a specialist GP at Flagstaff Medical Centre in Hamilton

Roadworks took out the internet and landlines of Clevedon Village Pharmacy and Clevedon Village Medical Centre south of Auckland last month

Data uploading problems continue to impact on the accuracy of vaccination data stored on the Aotearoa Immunisation Register creating concern about how the data is used to measure PHO success

More than a dozen corporate-owned practices have started the process of quitting the Western Bay of Plenty PHO, with wider hopes of quitting the PHO system entirely

South Seas Healthcare has survived a “David and Goliath” battle and is looking at celebrating like it’s 2024 all over again, says board chair Aupito Tofae Su’a William Sio

ANALYSIS: A new minister means new concerns for Māori health outcomes and the place of equity in policy making. Reporter Alan Perrott looks at rising stress levels

It’s shaping up to be a big year in telehealth, with a major contract up for grabs and a new minister looking for ‘innovative’ solutions to the problems facing the health sector. Deputy editor Patrice Dougan looks at the landscape and where it might be headed